In Blairsville’s restored Brizzi Building, Market Street Pastries is a family-owned bakery-café making fresh pastries and made-to-order food while preserving a downtown gathering place. Rebecca Wiley Marshall and her husband, Jeff, opened it in August 2011 after restoring the historic property, whose Queen Anne façade dates to about 1900. The bakery’s maple roll revives a recipe from Jeff’s family’s former Federal Bakery, bringing back a local favorite that had been absent since the late 1970s.
Alvaro Bread and Pastry ShoppeSal and Lina Alvaro built this Harrisburg bakery around Calabria-born family recipes and a lifelong dream of preserving the food of home. Their family restored a once-condemned former general store into the Olde Uptown shop, a project recognized with the Historic Harrisburg Association’s 2005 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award. Alvaro continues that tradition with scratch-made Italian baking for the neighborhood and Central Pennsylvania.HARRISBURG, PA
Mrs. London's Boutique BakeryBorn from a pastry chef and apprentice’s 1970s dream, Mrs. London’s is a French-influenced boutique bakery and café in Saratoga Springs, making scratch pastries, naturally leavened breads, desserts and savory café fare. The bakery has served its historic Broadway location for more than 20 years, carrying on traditions that include French macarons and breads made with New York State organically grown grains. Its creations have been featured on CBS and in The New York Times and Food & Wine Magazine.SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
Biscotti Cafe & Pastry ShopFounded in 1998 by CIA-trained chefs Geoff and Debbie Camire, Biscotti Café & Pastry Shop makes Italian pastries, cakes and gelato in Syracuse’s Little Italy. After its original café burned down, the couple rebuilt on North Salina Street and grew the business into a community bakery known for traditional Italian recipes, American spins on Italian classics and custom celebration cakes. Syracuse officially recognizes Biscotti Café Day each April 17.SYRACUSE, NY
Ohlson's Bakery & CafeOhlson’s Bakery & Cafe is a family bakery making scratch-baked goods and custom cakes, including the Wisconsin Kringle that reflects co-owner Lisa’s roots. Established in 1988 in a two-car garage in Clarence Hollow, the bakery now carries recipes handed down through both the Manderfield and Ohlson families, with more than 50 daily varieties and seasonal specialties.WILLIAMSVILLE, NY